You can’t fail to have noticed we’re soon to have a postal vote on same-sex marriage. But it’s the people who don’t vote who, paradoxically, could have the biggest impact on the poll.
In the lead-up to a vote on legalizing same-sex marriage in Australia, vitriolic campaign materials, including fliers calling homosexuality “a tragedy of a family,” circulated this week in Melbourne and Sydney.
In 2013, the Supreme Court had upheld Section 377, a British-era law that criminalises gay sex. Today, the court's ruling on Right to Privacy brought preservation of personal intimacies and sexual orientation in its ambit
"Discrimination against an individual on the basis of sexual orientation is deeply offensive to the dignity and self-worth of the individual. Equality demands that the sexual orientation of each individual in society must be protected." - The Supreme Court.
Since the 2016 election, which advocates say emboldened many right-wing extremists, there has been a reported rise in anti-LGBTQ violence that is disproportionately affecting people of color.
Three medical students at the University of Pennsylvania are getting ready launch their LGBTQ-focused health care app, SpectrumScores, by the end of August.
Damien Leonhardt is no stranger to online harassment. The non-binary trans person grew up on the internet and has changed drastically over time as they discovered their true identity.
